Excerpt from Dryope: And Other PoemsAnd gay at heart the Hamadryads sweet, Stealing at creeping dawn from sheltering trees, Where they all night in leavy slumber slept, Went revelling with happy laugh and shout About the wooded slopes and dew-fresh dells Of old Spercheius: on by turns and isles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.